How to Be Interesting: (In 10 Simple Steps)

Jessica Hagy

Mar 2013 · Sold by Workman Publishing Company

About this eBook

An inspiring visual guide to a richer life. 

“If there’s a thinker to steal from, it’s Jessica Hagy.”—Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist and Newspaper Blackout

How to Be Interesting is passionate, positive, down-to-earth, and irrepressibly upbeat, combining fresh and pithy life lessons, often just a sentence or two, with deceptively simple diagrams and graphs. Each of the book's more than 100 spreads will nudge readers a little bit further out of their comfort zones and into a place where suddenly everything is possible.

It’s about taking chance—but also about taking daily vacations. About being childlike, not childish. It’s about ideas, creativity, risk. It’s about trusting your talents and doing only what you want—but having the courage to get lost and see where the path leads. Because it’s what you don’t know that’s interesting.  

Ratings and reviews

Many self help books are difficult to follow and end up being demotivational, not this one. Through the use of a clever format and accompanying charts and graphs to visualize what's being said in the text, the author has created an easy-to-follow, and therefore, highly motivational book. Despite being on the expensive side, I really believe this book is worth the price because of the positive impact it could easily have on the receptive reader's life.

The book highlights pretty much the elements that we know would indefinitely make us interesting. Its akin to a catalyst to make us move and put us all out there to create opportunities for our ownselves as oppose to waiting for things to happen. You cant help but noticed that the things that will make u interesting are actually things that will make u a happier person.

Lots of people are saying it is too simple and can be summed up with "be yourself" etc. I agree it is a simple book but that is exactly what makes it brilliant. Use this book as a workbook. As you go though it, certain concepts will jump out at you and that's when you need to stop and really reflect on who you want to be and what needs changing. Just saying "be yourself" would help no one. This book excels at visualising important concepts in a fun way and then how you then use that is where the magic is.

About the author

Jessica Hagy is known for her Webby Award–winning blog Indexed and her cartoons, which appear regularly in the New York Times. She writes widely for national publications. Ms. Hagy lives with her family in Seattle.